Comment: Re:misleading/wrong question (Score 1) 222
It's a failure to recognize the fact that the virtual window of your analogy will be smashed EVERY time.
I'm not excusing exploits that can be fixed; they should be. But I don't think individual exploits are the main issue. There will always be some available.
The kind of mass profiling now possible to the police, and google, and facebook, is not open to just anybody. That's why google and facebook are valued at billions of dollars - because they're so pervasive they can create the Total Profile. And when they exploit a loophole or bug, it affects a huge percentage of the entire Internet. There are only a few such "information utilities," so they can be held to standards. At the very least, they can be tried in the court of public opinion against their pledge to "do no evil." They're advertising companies. Public relations matter greatly to them.